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anonymous [əˋnɑnəməs] adj. 匿名的，不知名的 【反】known, named
So he went on his own fact-finding mission, leaning heavily on a 49-page white paper submitted last month by three anonymous high-tech firms. (TIME, Feb.27, 1995, p.31)
所以他继续其真相调查工作，埋头审阅一份厚达49页的白皮书，这份白皮书是上个月由3家匿名的高科技公司提出的。
at stake [æt stek] 危急存亡关头的，有可能丧失或受损的 【同】at risk
At a news conference,(U.S. Undersecretary of Defense) Perry declared that the credibility of the international community (NATO) was at stake. (TIME, June 5,1995, p.38)
在记者招待会上，（美国国防部长）佩里宣称，北约这个国际组织正面临信任危机。
blunt [blʌnt] adj. 直言不讳的
Clinton’s summation was startlingly blunt: “It is better to have reached no agreement (on Japan’s opening it domestic market) than to have reached an empty agreement.”
(TIME, Feb.21, 1994, p.41)
最后克林顿语惊四座，直言不讳地总结说：“（在日本开放其国内市场这个议题上）与其获得形同一纸空文的协议，不如不要协议。”
burgeoning ['bɜdʒәniŋ] adj. 正快速发展的
Genetic information is the raw material of the burgeoning biotechnology industry, which uses human DNA to build specialized proteins that may have some value as disease-fighting drugs.
(TIME, Jan.16, 1995, p.54)
基因信息是目前正蓬勃发展的生物科技工业的原料；此工业利用人类DNA制造特化蛋白质，而这些蛋白质或许可作为治病药物之用。
coherent [koˋhɪrənt] adj. 前后连贯的，有条理的 【反】muddled, incoherent
Curry… impressed Clinton with his ability to fashion a coherent policy message that synthesized the often conflicting interests of the party’s traditional and moderate wings.
(TIME, June 5, 1995, p.22)
科里就是有这个本事，能够把党内保守派、温和派往往都各不相让的利益结合在一起，做出一份有条有理的政策报告，令克林顿大为赞赏。
█ fashion v. 制作 synthesize v. 综合，合成
conciliatory [kənˋsɪlɪəˏtɔrɪ] adj. 有和解之意的
The executive director of the Christian Coalition told a prominent Jewish audience, in a conciliatory speech, that calling the U.S. a “Christian nation” is wrong…
(TIME, Apr.17, 1995, p.13)
在一场有意化解对立的演讲中，基督教联盟的执行主席告诉台下那群犹太名流说，将美国叫做“基督教国家”是不对的。
conscious [ˋkɑnʃəs] adj. 意识到……的 【同】aware
Times Books recently announced that it will publish a book of socially-conscious poetry by former President Jimmy Carter. (TIME, July 18, 1994, p.9)
时代图书公司最近宣布，将出版一本由前总统卡特所写的社会关怀的诗集。
conventional [kənˋvɛnʃənl] adj. 传统的，一般的，普通的 【同】traditional 【反】unconventional
The voice-recognition technology will not be on conventional desktop computers only; it will be available in any sort of electronic information processing device. (TIME, July 17, 1995, p.44)
语音识别技术不仅将运用于一般的台式电脑，任何电子信息处理装置都用得上。
critical [ˋkrɪtɪkl] adj. 重大的，据关键地位的 【同】crucial
“We have only the foggiest idea,” the independent daily Segodnya complained last week, “who is actually at the helm in this country, who is making the critical decisions.”
(TIME, Jan.9, 1995, p.50)
立场独立的《塞戈尼亚日报》上周抱怨说：“谁是真正的国家领导者？谁做出重大决策？我们所知甚少。”
█ foggy adj. 模糊的，朦胧的
crucial [ˋkruʃəl] adj. 关键的，重大的 【同】critical
Understanding social cues, creating works of art and spawning inventions are all crucial mental tasks that bear little relationship to how well a person can fill in a printed test form.
(TIME, Sept. 11, 1995, p.60)
许多重要的心智活动，像理解一些社交上的暗示，创造艺术品，孕育新发明，其实都和填写考卷的能力没什么关系。
cunning [ˋkʌnɪŋ] adj. 狡猾的，精明的 【同】crafty
Perhaps the most cunning Disney trick is to take fairy tales in the public domain and reinvent them as corporate property. A billion-dollar example is Beauty and the Beast…
(TIME, May 2, 1994, p.72)
迪斯尼公司最精明的盘算，或许就是将童话故事搬上大众舞台，且将其改头换面，成为公司资产。耗资10亿美元排成的《美女与野兽》就是个例子。
dazzling [dæzəlɪŋ] adj. 令人目眩神移的【同】stunning
With computers doubling in speed and power every couple of years and with genetic engineering’s dazzling feats growing more and more routine, the battered American faith in technologic progress has been growing stronger and giddier of late. (TIME, May 27, 1996, p.67)
随着电脑的速度与功能每两年就增加一倍，基因工程领域中惊人的成就变得司空见惯，美国人在科技发展方面备受打击的信心，近年来已逐渐增强，并有异常乐观的趋势。
█ batter v. 连番猛击，毒打
dedicated [ˈdedɪkeɪtɪd] adj. 专注的
In Singapore, dedicated Net users are planning to maintain unfettered access by junping borders and dialing services in neighboring Malaysia. (TIME, Sept.23, 1996, p.27)
新加坡的网络迷正计划跨越国界，使用领国马来西亚的拨号服务，以确保网络上的自由使用权。
desperate [ˋdɛspərət] adj. 迫切的
Bereft of patrons, desperate to rescue his economy, Fidel Castro turns to an unusual solution:…
(TIME, Feb.20, 1995, p.50)
由于资助断绝，而又急于挽救该国经济，卡斯特罗转而求助于一项罕见的解救之道：……
█ to be bereft of 丧失（希望、喜悦等）
determined [dɪˈtɜːmɪnd] adj. 坚定的
Author Joe Kane came across a determined priest, a Spaniard who had spent years teaching a tribe of hunter gatherers, the Huaorani, how to survive outside their rainforest habitat.
(TIME, Mar.25, 1996, p.70)
作家乔·卡内遇到一名性格坚毅的西班牙籍教士，这名教士花了好几年时间教给华欧拉尼族人离开世居的雨林区之后的生存之道。华欧拉尼族以狩猎，采集为生。
disastrous [dɪzˋæstrəs] adj. 灾情惨重的 【同】terrible
The Kobe quake was only slightly bigger than the Northridge tremor but more disastrous.
(TIME, Jan.30, 1995, p.34)
神户地震的规模仅稍大于诺斯里奇地震，造成的灾情却严重得多。
distinct [dɪˋstɪŋkt] adj. 不易混淆的，独特的
Many scientists consider the Khoisan a distinct race of very ancient organ.
(TIME, Jan.16, 1995, p.54)
许多科学家认为（南非）克瓦桑族是一支独特的民族，渊源非常久远。
dominant [ˋdɑmənənt] adj. 主宰的，强势的 【同】pre-eminent
Now as then, the splintering of a Saddam-less Iraq would leave Iran the dominant gulf power, an unpalatable solution. (TIME, Sept.23, 1996, p.35)
现在的情况和当时相同，没有萨达姆·侯赛因的伊拉克会四分五裂，波斯湾就只剩伊朗称霸，这种解决方案令人无法接受。
█ splinter v. 使分裂； unpalatable adj. 不好吃的，令人不快的
doomed [dumd] adj. ① 注定的，命定的
He started at the top, of course, but the fact that he is staying there has frustrated the popular wisdom that an early front runner is doomed to fall. (TIME, June 5, 195, p.29)
他一开始就领先，这时理所当然的事，但让一般人不解的是，他此后一直保持领先，因为一般人都认为刚开始当选希望最大的人最后必定会败下阵来。
█ wisdom n. 看法； front runner 比赛中最有可能夺标的人
adj. ② 注定要失败或毁灭的，劫数难逃的
At the beginning of May 1945 it was clear to even the most zealous of Hitler’s followers that his “Thousand Year Reich” was doomed. (TIME, May 15, 1995, p.52)
1945年5月初，即使是希特勒最狂热的支持者，也都明白“千年帝国”已是劫数难逃。
drastic [ˋdræstɪk] adj. 剧烈的 【同】radical
The New Deal welfare safety net installed in the 1930s and augmented in the Great Society programs of the 1960s has been hauled off for the kind of drastic restitching that France, Germany, Italy and Sweden have been laboring over for the past year or more. (TIME, Aug.12, 1996, p.25)
“新政”在1930年代大张社会福利安全网，到了1060年代又因“伟大社会”的各项计划而更为扩大，如今这张安全网已经取下，准备大肆缝补，就像一年多来法国、德国、意大利与瑞典这些国家大费周章所做的修补一样。
█ augment v. 扩大，加强； to haul off 撤下； restitching n. 重新缝补
eccentric [ɪkˋsɛntrɪk] adj. 特立独行的，行为怪异的 【同】odd
The eccentric, fact-based best seller Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil sparks a rush to see where it all took place. (TIME, Apr.3, 1995, p.79)
这本风格特异、根据真人实事改编的畅销书《午夜的善恶花园》，激起一股人潮，涌向故事的发生地一探究竟。
elevated [ˋɛləˏvetɪd] adj. 崇高的
It turns out, however, that not every man who reached the pinnacle of American leadership was a gleaming example of self-awareness, empathy, impulse control and other qualities that mark an elevated EQ. (TIME, Oct.9, 1995, p.30)
然而，结果是，并非每个攀登到美国最高领导层的人都是具有自觉、有同理心，能克制冲动及其他高情商特指的闪光典范。
enduring [ɪnˈdurɪŋ] adj. 持久的
The plain, undecorated object, representing the enduring role art has played throughout China’s history, takes pride of place in the sumptuous Splendors of Imperial China, which opened last week at New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art. (TIME, Apr.1, 1996, p.47)
这件朴实、毫无雕琢的物品代表着艺术在中国历史上扮演的历久不衰的角色。上周在纽约大都会艺术博物馆开幕的“中国帝王瑰宝展”盛展中，这件物品展示在最主要的位置。
█ to take pride of place （在一组事物中）被视为最重要的；
sumptuous adj. 豪华的，昂贵的
explicit [ɪkˋsplɪsɪt] adj. 明白表示的，直言的
But they won’t be able to filter the Internet. They’re explicit about that.
(TIME, Feb.17, 1997, p.46)
但是他们无法滤到国际互联网，这点他们已明白表示。
地板，六楼，持续更新~~
So he went on his own fact-finding mission, leaning heavily on a 49-page white paper submitted last month by three anonymous high-tech firms. (TIME, Feb.27, 1995, p.31)
所以他继续其真相调查工作，埋头审阅一份厚达49页的白皮书，这份白皮书是上个月由3家匿名的高科技公司提出的。
at stake [æt stek] 危急存亡关头的，有可能丧失或受损的 【同】at risk
At a news conference,(U.S. Undersecretary of Defense) Perry declared that the credibility of the international community (NATO) was at stake. (TIME, June 5,1995, p.38)
在记者招待会上，（美国国防部长）佩里宣称，北约这个国际组织正面临信任危机。
blunt [blʌnt] adj. 直言不讳的
Clinton’s summation was startlingly blunt: “It is better to have reached no agreement (on Japan’s opening it domestic market) than to have reached an empty agreement.”
(TIME, Feb.21, 1994, p.41)
最后克林顿语惊四座，直言不讳地总结说：“（在日本开放其国内市场这个议题上）与其获得形同一纸空文的协议，不如不要协议。”
burgeoning ['bɜdʒәniŋ] adj. 正快速发展的
Genetic information is the raw material of the burgeoning biotechnology industry, which uses human DNA to build specialized proteins that may have some value as disease-fighting drugs.
(TIME, Jan.16, 1995, p.54)
基因信息是目前正蓬勃发展的生物科技工业的原料；此工业利用人类DNA制造特化蛋白质，而这些蛋白质或许可作为治病药物之用。
coherent [koˋhɪrənt] adj. 前后连贯的，有条理的 【反】muddled, incoherent
Curry… impressed Clinton with his ability to fashion a coherent policy message that synthesized the often conflicting interests of the party’s traditional and moderate wings.
(TIME, June 5, 1995, p.22)
科里就是有这个本事，能够把党内保守派、温和派往往都各不相让的利益结合在一起，做出一份有条有理的政策报告，令克林顿大为赞赏。
█ fashion v. 制作 synthesize v. 综合，合成
conciliatory [kənˋsɪlɪəˏtɔrɪ] adj. 有和解之意的
The executive director of the Christian Coalition told a prominent Jewish audience, in a conciliatory speech, that calling the U.S. a “Christian nation” is wrong…
(TIME, Apr.17, 1995, p.13)
在一场有意化解对立的演讲中，基督教联盟的执行主席告诉台下那群犹太名流说，将美国叫做“基督教国家”是不对的。
conscious [ˋkɑnʃəs] adj. 意识到……的 【同】aware
Times Books recently announced that it will publish a book of socially-conscious poetry by former President Jimmy Carter. (TIME, July 18, 1994, p.9)
时代图书公司最近宣布，将出版一本由前总统卡特所写的社会关怀的诗集。
conventional [kənˋvɛnʃənl] adj. 传统的，一般的，普通的 【同】traditional 【反】unconventional
The voice-recognition technology will not be on conventional desktop computers only; it will be available in any sort of electronic information processing device. (TIME, July 17, 1995, p.44)
语音识别技术不仅将运用于一般的台式电脑，任何电子信息处理装置都用得上。
critical [ˋkrɪtɪkl] adj. 重大的，据关键地位的 【同】crucial
“We have only the foggiest idea,” the independent daily Segodnya complained last week, “who is actually at the helm in this country, who is making the critical decisions.”
(TIME, Jan.9, 1995, p.50)
立场独立的《塞戈尼亚日报》上周抱怨说：“谁是真正的国家领导者？谁做出重大决策？我们所知甚少。”
█ foggy adj. 模糊的，朦胧的
crucial [ˋkruʃəl] adj. 关键的，重大的 【同】critical
Understanding social cues, creating works of art and spawning inventions are all crucial mental tasks that bear little relationship to how well a person can fill in a printed test form.
(TIME, Sept. 11, 1995, p.60)
许多重要的心智活动，像理解一些社交上的暗示，创造艺术品，孕育新发明，其实都和填写考卷的能力没什么关系。
cunning [ˋkʌnɪŋ] adj. 狡猾的，精明的 【同】crafty
Perhaps the most cunning Disney trick is to take fairy tales in the public domain and reinvent them as corporate property. A billion-dollar example is Beauty and the Beast…
(TIME, May 2, 1994, p.72)
迪斯尼公司最精明的盘算，或许就是将童话故事搬上大众舞台，且将其改头换面，成为公司资产。耗资10亿美元排成的《美女与野兽》就是个例子。
dazzling [dæzəlɪŋ] adj. 令人目眩神移的【同】stunning
With computers doubling in speed and power every couple of years and with genetic engineering’s dazzling feats growing more and more routine, the battered American faith in technologic progress has been growing stronger and giddier of late. (TIME, May 27, 1996, p.67)
随着电脑的速度与功能每两年就增加一倍，基因工程领域中惊人的成就变得司空见惯，美国人在科技发展方面备受打击的信心，近年来已逐渐增强，并有异常乐观的趋势。
█ batter v. 连番猛击，毒打
dedicated [ˈdedɪkeɪtɪd] adj. 专注的
In Singapore, dedicated Net users are planning to maintain unfettered access by junping borders and dialing services in neighboring Malaysia. (TIME, Sept.23, 1996, p.27)
新加坡的网络迷正计划跨越国界，使用领国马来西亚的拨号服务，以确保网络上的自由使用权。
desperate [ˋdɛspərət] adj. 迫切的
Bereft of patrons, desperate to rescue his economy, Fidel Castro turns to an unusual solution:…
(TIME, Feb.20, 1995, p.50)
由于资助断绝，而又急于挽救该国经济，卡斯特罗转而求助于一项罕见的解救之道：……
█ to be bereft of 丧失（希望、喜悦等）
determined [dɪˈtɜːmɪnd] adj. 坚定的
Author Joe Kane came across a determined priest, a Spaniard who had spent years teaching a tribe of hunter gatherers, the Huaorani, how to survive outside their rainforest habitat.
(TIME, Mar.25, 1996, p.70)
作家乔·卡内遇到一名性格坚毅的西班牙籍教士，这名教士花了好几年时间教给华欧拉尼族人离开世居的雨林区之后的生存之道。华欧拉尼族以狩猎，采集为生。
disastrous [dɪzˋæstrəs] adj. 灾情惨重的 【同】terrible
The Kobe quake was only slightly bigger than the Northridge tremor but more disastrous.
(TIME, Jan.30, 1995, p.34)
神户地震的规模仅稍大于诺斯里奇地震，造成的灾情却严重得多。
distinct [dɪˋstɪŋkt] adj. 不易混淆的，独特的
Many scientists consider the Khoisan a distinct race of very ancient organ.
(TIME, Jan.16, 1995, p.54)
许多科学家认为（南非）克瓦桑族是一支独特的民族，渊源非常久远。
dominant [ˋdɑmənənt] adj. 主宰的，强势的 【同】pre-eminent
Now as then, the splintering of a Saddam-less Iraq would leave Iran the dominant gulf power, an unpalatable solution. (TIME, Sept.23, 1996, p.35)
现在的情况和当时相同，没有萨达姆·侯赛因的伊拉克会四分五裂，波斯湾就只剩伊朗称霸，这种解决方案令人无法接受。
█ splinter v. 使分裂； unpalatable adj. 不好吃的，令人不快的
doomed [dumd] adj. ① 注定的，命定的
He started at the top, of course, but the fact that he is staying there has frustrated the popular wisdom that an early front runner is doomed to fall. (TIME, June 5, 195, p.29)
他一开始就领先，这时理所当然的事，但让一般人不解的是，他此后一直保持领先，因为一般人都认为刚开始当选希望最大的人最后必定会败下阵来。
█ wisdom n. 看法； front runner 比赛中最有可能夺标的人
adj. ② 注定要失败或毁灭的，劫数难逃的
At the beginning of May 1945 it was clear to even the most zealous of Hitler’s followers that his “Thousand Year Reich” was doomed. (TIME, May 15, 1995, p.52)
1945年5月初，即使是希特勒最狂热的支持者，也都明白“千年帝国”已是劫数难逃。
drastic [ˋdræstɪk] adj. 剧烈的 【同】radical
The New Deal welfare safety net installed in the 1930s and augmented in the Great Society programs of the 1960s has been hauled off for the kind of drastic restitching that France, Germany, Italy and Sweden have been laboring over for the past year or more. (TIME, Aug.12, 1996, p.25)
“新政”在1930年代大张社会福利安全网，到了1060年代又因“伟大社会”的各项计划而更为扩大，如今这张安全网已经取下，准备大肆缝补，就像一年多来法国、德国、意大利与瑞典这些国家大费周章所做的修补一样。
█ augment v. 扩大，加强； to haul off 撤下； restitching n. 重新缝补
eccentric [ɪkˋsɛntrɪk] adj. 特立独行的，行为怪异的 【同】odd
The eccentric, fact-based best seller Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil sparks a rush to see where it all took place. (TIME, Apr.3, 1995, p.79)
这本风格特异、根据真人实事改编的畅销书《午夜的善恶花园》，激起一股人潮，涌向故事的发生地一探究竟。
elevated [ˋɛləˏvetɪd] adj. 崇高的
It turns out, however, that not every man who reached the pinnacle of American leadership was a gleaming example of self-awareness, empathy, impulse control and other qualities that mark an elevated EQ. (TIME, Oct.9, 1995, p.30)
然而，结果是，并非每个攀登到美国最高领导层的人都是具有自觉、有同理心，能克制冲动及其他高情商特指的闪光典范。
enduring [ɪnˈdurɪŋ] adj. 持久的
The plain, undecorated object, representing the enduring role art has played throughout China’s history, takes pride of place in the sumptuous Splendors of Imperial China, which opened last week at New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art. (TIME, Apr.1, 1996, p.47)
这件朴实、毫无雕琢的物品代表着艺术在中国历史上扮演的历久不衰的角色。上周在纽约大都会艺术博物馆开幕的“中国帝王瑰宝展”盛展中，这件物品展示在最主要的位置。
█ to take pride of place （在一组事物中）被视为最重要的；
sumptuous adj. 豪华的，昂贵的
explicit [ɪkˋsplɪsɪt] adj. 明白表示的，直言的
But they won’t be able to filter the Internet. They’re explicit about that.
(TIME, Feb.17, 1997, p.46)
但是他们无法滤到国际互联网，这点他们已明白表示。
地板，六楼，持续更新~~
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